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Herein we combine 2 studies: a 25-year prospective followup on 270 spinal cord injury patients and a more than 20-year (average 24.2 years) evaluation of 175 paraplegics. The mortality rate was 49 per cent after 25 years, with renal disease as the major cause of death (43 per cent). Vascular deaths were just as prevale…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the clinical and radiographic outcomes of patients with total elbow arthroplasty (TEA) and soft tissue reconstruction. METHODS: We investigated six patients who underwent TEA and soft tissue reconstruction (two elbows with 1-stage surgery and four elbows with 2-stage surgery). The mean patient age…

BACKGROUND: Evidence on the social determinants of mental health conditions and violence among people who inject or use drugs (PWUD) is limited, particularly in conflict-affected countries. We estimated the prevalence of symptoms of anxiety or depression and experience of emotional or physical violence among PWUD in Ka…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of spinal canal decompression with microendoscopic disectomy (MED) and pillar vertebral space insertion through pedicle of vertebral arch for thoracolumbar neglected fracture. METHODS: Between February 2006 and November 2009, 30 patients with thoracolumbar neglected fracture…

Sarcomatoid, or spindle cell squamous cell carcinoma (SCSC), is relatively uncommon, but may be encountered. It poses a challenge in differential diagnosis that includes other spindle cell neoplasms. We present a case where the lesion existed for 20 years and raised the potential of chronicity as a factor in inducing s…

INTRODUCTION: It is well established that menopause is associated with accelerated bone loss. However, no study has tested whether bone mass after the menopause transition is correlated with the premenopausal bone mass; that is, whether a high premenopausal bone mass will be predicatively high after menopause in an ind…

The differential diagnosis of the causes of acute scrotum only by clinical means, is often very difficult and supposes the risk of making mistakes, which leaves to several unnecessary surgical explorations. By Colour Doppler Sonography we get some information about testicular flow that helps us in the diagnosis. During…

BACKGROUND: In Finland, the incidence of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in children aged < 15 years is the highest in the world. The aim of this study was to determine the temporal variation in incidence and the age distribution at diagnosis of IDDM. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Data on incidence of IDDM in Finla…

ABSTRACT: The profile of severe asthmatics: Results from a specialized asthma clinic INTRODUCTION: In patients with severe asthma, individualized treatment, and appropriate phenotyping are required to achieve control. In our study, our aim was to examine the characteristics of a specific patient group in a specialized…

INTRODUCTION: Menarche is the last stage of pubertal development, which coincides with the completion of longitudinal growth. As a consequence of the lack of national and up-to-date data related to post-menarcheal (PM) growth, the aim of our work was to evaluate PM growth in a group of contemporary healthy Chilean girl…

There has been a significant increase in use of hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement over the last 10 years. However, some care providers in the United Kingdom are not commissioning such an intervention due to cost constraints and lack of published cost effectiveness studies. A cost analysis for a prospecti…

The authors are presenting the results of the traumatic cataract surgery in 52 patients (45 male, 7 female). The cataract was caused in 7 cases by blunt trauma, in 43 cases by penetrating trauma (in 16 cases with intraocular foreign body). The mean age of patients was 29 years, ranging from 4 to 73 years. In 2 cases wa…

PRECIS: Mitomycin was used with Ahmed valve implantation in 81 eyes of 63 children. After 5 years, probability of intraocular pressure (IOP) control without glaucoma medication was 35&#xb1;6%; 57% achieved IOP control with topical medications after 10 years. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the long…

The Carpentier-Edwards porcine valve bioprosthesis was implanted in 299 patients (325 prostheses) from April 1976 to April 1982. The series consisted of aortic valve replacement in 150 patients, mitral valve replacement in 120, multiple valve replacement in 26, pulmonary valve replacement in 2 and tricuspid valve repla…

The bacteria having a unique ring-like morphology first isolated from nasal mucus by Weibel in 1887 were classified as a new genus Spirosoma by Migula in 1894. However, because these bacteria were not completely described for taxonomic purposes and their cultures were no longer available, the genus was deleted from the…

In the last three decades, there has been a huge increase in the number of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, which is becoming a serious threat to public health. Since the discovery of new effective antibiotics has dramatically decreased in last ten years, there are huge initiatives to develop new antimicrobial a…

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) related containment measures led to the disruption of all virus distribution. Bronchiolitis-related hospitalizations shrank during 2020-2021, rebounding to pre-pandemic numbers the following year. This study aims to describe the trend in bronchiolitis-related hospitalization…

OBJECTIVE: To understand the trends on HIV and syphilis infections, as well as on risk behaviors and intervention among MSM in China from 2010 to 2013 so as to provide information for the development of intervention strategies for MSM. METHODS: Study population involved MSM who were recruited for the national HIV sent…

Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a serious parasitic disease caused by larval stages of Echinococcus multilocularis. Between January 2000 and October 2023, 137 AE cases were confirmed in Slovakia. The average annual incidence increased from 0.031 per 100,000 inhabitants between 2000 and 2011, to an average of 0.18…

BACKGROUND: The optimal therapeutic regimen for children at onset of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) is still under debate. A better knowledge of the disease's course is necessary to design more appropriate and/or personalized treatment protocols. METHODS: We report the 5-year outcome of patients included from Dec…